Stark Climate Change Warning for Government
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BBC
4.4 • 6.4K Ratings
🗓️ 20 April 2024
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
Today we look at the apologies made by the Met Police after threatening to arrest an anti-Semitism charity leader for being near a pro-Palestine march.
Gideon Falter, the Campaign Against Antisemitism chief executive was told by police his presence was causing a "breach of peace", in a video posted online.
Laura and Paddy speak to former Chief Inspector of Constabulary and Fire and Rescue Zoe Billingham about policing protests and the pressures on the police.
And Laura’s spoken to the outgoing Chief Executive of the Climate Change Committee, Chris Stark who says Rishi Sunak has “set us back” on climate change.
Today's Newscast was presented by Laura Kuenssberg and Paddy O’Connell. It was made by Jack Maclaren with Gemma Roper. The technical producer was Frank McWeeny. The editor is Sam Bonham.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts. |
| 0:04.7 | Hello, this is the Liz Trust sofa. |
| 0:07.6 | Is it? |
| 0:08.8 | I suppose it is, yes. |
| 0:10.4 | Why was she put in the chair that I occupy on a weekend and not yours when she had Chris Mason interview scoop? |
| 0:18.0 | I don't know, are you cross that Liz Trust sat on your seat on the sofa? |
| 0:22.0 | Well it's now, I think she's trumped me it's just the Lizz Truss cushion |
| 0:26.3 | I'm on the Lizz Truss cushion |
| 0:28.7 | I'm in the naughty chair isn't it but But where does that leave impartiality? |
| 0:32.6 | Because I'm sitting on Liz Truss's cushion. Well I'm still very impartial because I'm |
| 0:36.5 | sitting in my seat and the Chris Mason seat so I'm so glorying in impartiality. |
| 0:40.9 | I think we're going to have to have Gordon Brown and Tony Blair cushions. |
| 0:43.7 | Well we could get them to sit all sit next to each other. That would be a thing. We could have a Prime Ministerial |
| 0:48.2 | sofa. There you go, that'd be good, wouldn't it? You've got a scoop? |
| 0:51.6 | Yes, I've been talking to Chris Stark, who's the boss of the CCC, which is the climate change |
| 0:56.6 | committee, and he is leaving his job. |
| 0:59.5 | And you know sometimes when people leave their jobs, they're able to be a bit more candid, shall we say, |
| 1:04.8 | about what their job has been like when they've been dealing with politicians, so more of that |
| 1:08.1 | in a few moments. And we're also going to be talking about another mess for the Met police. |
| 1:12.1 | Yes, they have apologized for calling a |
| 1:16.0 | protester openly Jewish and also for issuing a cack-handed statement before the apology standing by what they did. So it's a giant mess. |
| 1:25.8 | A giant mess. I will be talking to somebody who understands the police very much in a few minutes |
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